A Photo Exhibition

Last Saturday,I went with my wife to see a photo exhibition at Tomakomai Katsudo Center. It was being held by a young man named Takahashi Naoki, who had worked in Niger,Africa, and in Fiji,south west Pacific, as a member of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV). Mr.Takahashi was a nice young man who had graduated from Tomakomai Komazawa Senior High School. In Niger and in Fiji, he taught the native people how to grow vegetables. He said he had learned about agriculture before he left Japan. There were photos of big cabbages,pumpkins,cucumbers,eggplants, etc. The photos of him surrounded by smiling native people seemed to show that he was doing a very good job there. He is going to Indonesia to teach Japanese language. My wife and I were very happy to know there were such nice young Japanese.
Today, I received an e-mail from Mr.Koshito, one of my old students. He said he visited Miyagi prefecture, where there is my hometown. He says he and his classmates are planing to have a class reunion. I look forward to it.